SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann.
[Incunable prospect of Constantinople]Constantinopolis.Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1493. Latin edition. Woodcut, image 240 x 530mm, set in a page of text. Centrefold restoration as usual. Otherwise a fine example with good margins.On eof the earliest obtainable view of Constantinople from the famous 'Nuremberg Chronicle'. On verso are several woodcuts including portraits of Byzantine emperors, Saint Helena (mother of Emperor Constantine I) and Arius, and a group representing the Council of Nicea.
[Ref: 19188]
£1,400.00
($1,858 • €1,616 rates)

WÄLDSEEMÜLLER, Martin.
[The 16th Century Wäldseemüller/Fries map of 'Modern' Turkey]Tabu. Nova Asiae Mi.Lyon, 1535. Coloured woodcut, printed area 300 x 380mm.The Fries reduction of Wäldseemüller's map of 'modern' Turkey, including Cyprus. Originally intended not for a Ptolemy edition but for a new 'Chronica mundi' being written by Wäldseemüller, his death c.1520 caused the project to be shelved, so the reduced woodcuts were used to publish a smaller sized and so cheaper edition of the 'Geography'. On verso is a text surrounded by woodcut columnar decorations.
[Ref: 16996]
£950.00
($1,261 • €1,096 rates)

MUNSTER, Sebastian.
[A 16th century prospect of Constantinople]Constantinopel...Basle, c.1560, German text. Coloured woodcut, printed area 290 x 390mm, set in text.A mapof Istanbul, presented as a bird's-eye view, with the important buildings shown in profile, with a disregard for perspective.
[Ref: 17677]
£500.00
($664 • €577 rates)

BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.
[A fine 16th century plan of Constantinople in fine original colour]Byzantium, nunc Constantinopolis.Cologne, c.1574. Original colour. 330 x 485mm. Centre fold reinforced on verso.An early bird's-eye plan of Istanbul, published in the first volume of the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the first series of printed town plans. Originally published in 1572, this example comes from the second state, with the last roundel in the series of portraits of the Turkish sultans filled by Murad III (1574-95).
[Ref: 18305]
£2,900.00
($3,848 • €3,347 rates)

HONDIUS, Jodocus.
[17th century map of Turkey & Cyprus]Natoliae sive Asia Minor.Amsterdam: Henricus Hondius, 1628, French text edition. Original colour. 345 x 480mm. A very fine example.Decorative map of present day Turkey with Cyprus prominently shown. The sea is boldly engraved in a wave pattern. There is a large sea monster in the Mediterranean and an oared ship in the Black Sea. The map is further embellished with three fine strapwork cartouchesKOEMAN: Me 28a.
[Ref: 16468]
£550.00
($730 • €635 rates)

MERIAN, Mattheus.
[17th century prospect of Constantinople]Constantinopolis.Frankfurt, c.1650. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined as issued, total 230 x 690mm. Right hand side margin repairedA superbly-detailed prospect of Constantinople from Galata, which was, according to the title, taken from life in 1635. It depicts both sides of the Golden Horn in great detail, with the important buildings identified by a 30-point key below.
[Ref: 18046]
£1,900.00
($2,521 • €2,193 rates)

MONCORNET, Balthazar.
[A scarce 17th century prospect of Constantinople]Constantinople.Parris: Moncornet, c.1660. 340 x 510mm.A superbly-detailed prospect of Constantinople from Galata, based on the same 1635 view used by Merian. It depicts both sides of the Golden Horn in great detail, with the important buildings identified by a 29-point key below.
[Ref: 18218]
£2,250.00
($2,986 • €2,597 rates)

SANSON, Nicolas.
[A map of the Bosphorus in Classical times]Anaplus Bosphori Thracii Ex Indagationibus Petri Gullis Delineatus.Paris: Pierre Mariette, 1666. Original outline colour. 415 x 535mm. A very fine large paper example.A map of the Bosphorus in Classical times. Underneath the elaborate title cartouche there is a vignette of Xerxes I leading the Persian army across a pontoon bridge c. 482 BC.
[Ref: 18038]
£375.00
($498 • €433 rates)